# Platform economics - Managed services, a DevOps AI and the toolchain they replace Canonical: https://ankra.ai/platform-economics Ankra runs managed services in your own cluster and pairs them with AI agents that specialise in DevOps, so every developer can ship the whole stack. See what it replaces, at public list prices. Platform economics # Managed services and a DevOps AI. Every developer ships full stack. Ankra runs the databases, caches, pipelines and clusters as managed services in your own cloud, and pairs them with AI agents that specialise in DevOps. Developers ship the whole stack themselves; the platform team sets the guardrails. [Start building free](https://platform.ankra.app/auth/signup) [See pricing](https://ankra.ai/pricing) one developer · full stack ``` $ ankra services setup orders-db --package postgresql # reviewed plan: HA, backups $ git push # build, scan, deploy, preview URL $ ankra chat "why is checkout slow?" # the SRE agent finds it, fix as a PR $ ankra cost savings # what to cut next ``` Managed services, self-hosted ## Managed services, running in your own cluster. Ankra sets each service up from a plan you review, checks its health, backs it up and upgrades it. The data, the network and the bill stay in your cloud account. PG ### PostgreSQL CloudNativePG Instead of Cloud SQL, RDS `ankra services setup orders-db --package postgresql` VK ### Valkey Redis-compatible cache Instead of Memorystore, ElastiCache `ankra services setup cache --package valkey` OS ### OpenSearch Search and analytics Instead of Elastic Cloud, OpenSearch Service `ankra services setup search --package opensearch` VM ### Metrics VictoriaMetrics Instead of Managed Prometheus, hosted metrics `ankra services setup metrics --package victoria-metrics` VL ### Logs VictoriaLogs and the log explorer Instead of Cloud Logging, hosted log search `ankra services setup logs --package victoria-logs` NA ### Queues NATS, plus Kafka and RabbitMQ add-ons Instead of Pub/Sub, Amazon MQ, Confluent `ankra services setup events --package nats` S3 ### Object storage SeaweedFS or provider buckets Instead of GCS or S3 with egress fees `ankra services setup files --package seaweedfs` HB ### Registry Harbor, per organisation Instead of Artifact Registry, ECR `ankra registry` BK ### Backups Velero, Kopia, database capture Instead of Backup for GKE, AWS Backup `ankra backup vaults` IN ### Ingress, DNS, TLS Traefik, external-dns, cert-manager Instead of Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS `ankra cluster apply -f cluster.yaml` SC ### Security Trivy, Kyverno, KEV and EPSS Instead of Security Command Center, container scanners `ankra security` SE ### Secrets SOPS/AGE in Git, Vault Instead of Secret Manager, Doppler `ankra cluster encrypt` CI/CD · Orchestration · Kubernetes management ## Three toolchains, replaced by one platform. The tools a platform team usually assembles to do what Ankra does, at public list prices for 40 nodes and a 25-engineer team. Ranges reflect plan tiers and negotiated discounts. 01 CI/CD ### CI/CD and code security GitHub Actions larger runners €0.4k to €1.4k /mo Ankra: **Ankra Pipelines on your CI cluster** · [GitHub runner pricing](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-your-products/managing-billing-for-github-actions/about-billing-for-github-actions) Snyk Ignite €1.7k to €2.9k /mo Ankra: **Semgrep, Checkov and Trivy gate** · [$105 per developer per month](https://costbench.com/software/vulnerability-management/snyk/) CodeRabbit Pro €0.3k to €0.7k /mo Ankra: **AI PR reviews and fix PRs** · [$24 per developer per month](https://www.coderabbit.ai/pricing) 02 Orchestration ### Delivery and orchestration Akuity (managed Argo CD) €0.5k to €1.8k /mo Ankra: **Native GitOps engine** · [Pro from $495 per month](https://akuity.io/pricing) HCP Terraform Standard €0.2k to €1.8k /mo Ankra: **Cluster and stack YAML, ankra cluster apply** · [$0.10 to $0.99 per resource](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/overview/estimate-hcp-terraform-cost) Port developer portal €0.7k to €1.8k /mo Ankra: **Portal, stack profiles, service catalogue** · [$30 to $40 per seat](https://pricingsaas.com/companies/port) 03 Kubernetes management ### Kubernetes management and operations Rancher Prime €3.7k to €8.6k /mo Ankra: **Cluster lifecycle on any cloud** · [$1,200 to $2,800 per node a year](https://costbench.com/software/container-platform/rancher/) Datadog Infrastructure + APM €2.6k to €3.7k /mo Ankra: **Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, log explorer** · [$18 + $42 per host on demand](https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/) Teleport quote Ankra: **Kube gateway with SSO and recorded sessions** · [Quote-based](https://goteleport.com/pricing/guide/) Industry toolchain **€14,211 / month** Most likely. Range €9,885 to €22,829. Teleport is quote-based and not counted. Ankra platform fee **€4,392 / month** 640 worker vCPU, 30 free, at the Startup rate of €0.01 per vCPU-hour from [pricing](https://ankra.ai/pricing) . Your cloud bills the servers. Toolchain range Ankra fee Managed services · DevOps AI ## Every developer, a full-stack engineer. Managed services take away the undifferentiated work. AI agents that specialise in DevOps close the expertise gap. A developer who has never run Postgres or written a Helm chart can still ship the database, the pipeline and the fix, inside guardrails the platform team sets. What one developer does alone 01 ### Gets a production database ankra services setup orders-db --package postgresql prepares a plan to review: the package, placement and the application it serves. On confirm, Ankra runs it in the cluster and binds it to that application. 02 ### Ships it with a push Ankra Pipelines builds rootless in your CI cluster, gates on Semgrep, Checkov and Trivy, publishes an immutable image and opens a preview for the pull request. 03 ### Fixes what breaks The SRE agent reads the pod logs, events and the last deploy, names the cause and proposes the fix as a pull request. A person approves it. 04 ### Runs it well ankra cost savings and ankra security say what to change next: idle capacity to cut, and exploited vulnerabilities to patch first. Six role agents, in every organisation TL ### AI Team Lead Triages requests, routes work to the right specialist and files tickets for anything that outlives the chat. DV ### Developer Helm charts and values, deploys, CI/CD workflows and pull request demos. DB ### Database Admin StatefulSets, volumes, operators and backups. Verifies backups before proposing anything that touches data. SR ### SRE Alert triage, golden signals, incident timelines and postmortem notes. Evidence first. DO ### DevOps Clusters, node pools, add-ons, stacks, GitOps drift and IaC. One reversible step at a time. DS ### DevSecOps Turns a security report into fixes, as pull requests at the source and add-on upgrade proposals. Observe · Propose · Autonomous Writes need approval Protected namespaces Budgets per run Audit log claude code · ankra mcp ``` $ claude mcp add --transport http ankra https://platform.ankra.app/api/v1/mcp you Why did checkout-api's deploy fail on staging? ankra 2/3 pods in CrashLoopBackOff. DATABASE_URL is unset: the secret key was renamed, the chart reads the old one. ankra Fix ready as a pull request. Waiting for your approval. # illustrative transcript ``` [The Kubernetes MCP server](https://ankra.ai/kubernetes-mcp-server) [Platform pricing](https://ankra.ai/pricing) How these numbers are made - Tool prices are public list prices, partly from third-party trackers where a vendor does not publish them, converted at $1 = €0.92. Each row links its source. - Per-node tools are scaled to 40 nodes and per-developer tools to 25 engineers. Your negotiated prices may be lower. - The Ankra fee is the Startup rate on worker vCPU above the 30 free. Enterprise, at €0.03 per vCPU-hour, adds SSO and the audit feed. - Infrastructure is billed by your cloud provider on both sides and is not part of this comparison. Your next chapter ## You built it. *Let’s get it live.* Give your application a path to production. Give your team a simpler way to run it. [Get your app live](https://platform.ankra.app/auth/signup) [Try a playground](https://ankra.ai/playground) First 30 vCPU of platform usage included. Try it without a card; a card unlocks full access and €59 of credit. From something you built to something people use. - Deploy from your repository - Run on infrastructure you choose - Operate with your team and agents